To prevent Carinhall from falling into the hands of the advancing Red Army, the compound was dynamited on 28 April 1945 at Göring's orders by a Luftwaffe demolition squad. The art treasures were evacuated beforehand to Berchtesgaden.

Only the monumental entrance gates, a few foundation structures, and decorative stones remain from the building. A bronze statue by Franz von Stuck, Kämpfende Amazone (1897), once at Carinhall, is now at Eberswalde.

In 1999 new interest was sparked by the book Görings Reich: Selbstinszenierungen in Carinhall[1] which saw treasure hunters drawn to the ruins, and concerns raised about the site becoming a neo-Nazi "shrine".[2] Accordingly, the state government of Brandenburg ordered the remains of the tomb of Göring's wife to be demolished.[citation needed]